Wednesday, September 16, 2009

September 15th, 2009, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned seven Senators for voting to continue funding ACORN with federal housing grants, terming them the "Sordid Seven" and promising to hold them accountable.

"The ACORN Housing Corporation has long been pushing the very loose-lending policies that helped destroy the housing industry. And now it has been exposed for working with prostitutes, as well. Yet, these seven Senators have knowingly voted to keep sending taxpayer money to a highly corrupt organization of pushers and pimps," said Wilson.

"The constituents of these seven unconscionable Senators need to know that despite ACORN's clear track record of bad lending practices, the 'Sordid Seven' have chosen to look the other way," Wilson added.

"The fact is, the Senate did not go far enough," Wilson added, saying, "ACORN should be immediately defunded of all its federal moneys, no if's, and's, or but's." Wilson called on members of Congress to support a House Republican proposal to end all federal funding to ACORN reported this morning in the Washington Examiner.

Yesterday's vote in the Senate followed the highly publicized disclosure of undercover videos revealing operations offering assistance to underaged prostitutes exclusively reported by Andrew Breitbart's Big Government news portal. On the videos, ACORN workers were shown giving advice on how to evade taxes, set up a brothel, and even use minors as prostitutes.

The revelations have already led to the U.S. Census revoking its partnership agreement with ACORN in the official 2010 Census count, as ALG News previously reported.

In addition to its problems with housing funds and offering assistance to prostitutes, ACORN is under investigation for voter registration fraud in several swing states, including Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Missouri, and has a long history of such fraud in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico. Americans for Limited government last year released a comprehensive executive summary of its activities.

"These seven Senators, who I'm now calling the 'Sordid Seven,' ought to be held to account, and Americans for Limited Government promises to remind their constituents often of their acting as bagmen for ACORN," Wilson concluded.

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